General Tree pics

[Peter]

I look at pictures like that and I always see sawlogs:fisheye:

 

 

Kindling mate. Thousands and thousands of tiny bags of kindling!

[MasterBlaster]

Is that an angled backcut?

[Andy Collins]

How much did Lady Luck come into play on that fell, Tockmal?? Still, job done!

[MasterBlaster]

No, no

 

So did you have to use an axe to fell it?

[telhol]

LOL Lucky

[tockmal]

How much did Lady Luck come into play on that fell, Tockmal??

 

About 78% I'd say, if we didn't have the stem tied up at the butt end the glasshouse would have been demolished. I was pulling the stem over with the pickup - I moved forward just enough to take it past the centre of gravity then got out to watch - I'm not kidding the top of the stem hit the subsurface rock and the whole thing bounced about 10ft in the air heading straight for the glasshouse! It was one of those situations where you just watch helplessy.

[tockmal]

So did you have to use an axe to fell it?

 

 

Steps

 

1. - Directional notch made

2 - Boring back-cut placed slightly high marginally overlapping the top of the directional notch, leaving one of those invisible hinges we all know only too well.

3 - Strap breaking back-cut severes holding section of wood allowing stem to be pulled over.

 

Any comments would be good.

[Mike Hill]

[quote name='tockmal;

Steps

 

1. - Directional notch made

2 - Boring back-cut placed slightly high marginally overlapping the top of the directional notch' date=' leaving one of those invisible hinges we all know only too well.

3 - Strap breaking back-cut severes holding section of wood allowing stem to be pulled over.

 

Any comments would be good.[/quote']

 

If you didn't remove one of the two main stems before you felled the spar,the tree could have hit the bank and twisted so quickley that your rope snapped or timber hitch rolled out.

Leaving the two stems as it looked like you did,might seem like a good idea (helping prevent it rolling) but as both stems are unlikely to hit the ground at the same moment,a bit more rigging work could have removed that hazard.

 

I noticed that the stump had no "hingewood",even with a pulling line to a vehicle the spar could have snapped off the stump and falled sideways.

 

I've falled trees and tied off the trunk to the stump,I used to do it with a single rope as you do.I still do it occasionally,but use a rope and a rigging chain as back up.I groove the trunk and half hitch the rope below the knot.I double wrap the chain around the stem in the opposite way the tree might roll and attach the chain around the stump with a shortening link.

Alll these precautions are a result of "cock ups" that I have seen or done and well worth it in the long run.

[skyhuck]

In a situation like that i think i would have cut a very open gob(notch)also known as a birds mouth gob,cut a standard back cut just higher than what would have been the bottom of the gob had it not been opened up,leave a thick hinge and pull, the gob should be open enough not to close so the hinge won't snap.I would have still roped the base as you did.

 

But any way, you'r method worked and there was no damage and thats all that matters,merry chistmas:cheers:

[vduben]

could you of not put a topping strop and a big **** off pully on a tree so it could of been pulled up the hill??? that way as well you can keep the tension on the rope with the truck from a higher point, totaly cutting any chance of a roll or slide?